We’ve seen burned toddlers hanging on the walls of Winterfell, a brother seemingly rape his sister in the tomb of their dead son, daughters raped and abused by rebel members of the Night’s Watch, a pregnant woman fatally stabbed in the uterus, an incestuous royal affair caught by a minor who is then tossed from a tower, a death by beheading, a male brutally tortured before having his penis chopped off while another is poisoned and chokes to death – blood pouring from his eyes and ears – as others watch on.

Officials at East Carolina University are telling students to disregard instructions from a chemistry professor who told them they were prohibited from mentioning God during a departmental graduation ceremony.

The assistant EPA inspector general for investigations, Patrick Sullivan, was expected to testify Wednesday before a House oversight committee about the activities of the EPA's little-known Office of Homeland Security.